cubaninsider: "The Country That Raped Me" (A True Story)

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Anti-Cuba Propagandists Proliferate

Taking Advantage of A Pandemic!!

     As of April 23rd, 2020, the island of Cuba has reported 3 more COVID-19 deaths, making a total of 43. With a population of 11.5 million, Cuba is battling the pandemic while also being forced to struggle against history's all-time cruelest and longest {since 1962} Embargo/Blockade ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much-weaker nation. After 6+ decades of trying mightily to overthrow the Cuban Revolution, the extremist anti-Cuba propagandists who have thrived and proliferated in the United States since January of 1959 have risen from under their rocks to take full advantage of the Coronavirus crisis to accomplish what decades of lies, assassinations, military excursions, terrorism, sanctions, embargoes, blockades, etc., have FAILED to accomplish. But for sure, since 1959 right-wing exiles from Cuba and other former U.S.-backed dictatorships have flocked to the U. S., especially Miami, to #1 -- Get rich; and #2 to RE-CAPTURE Cuba, the island in the Caribbean that had the AUDACITY to overthrow the brutal and thieving U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship way back in 1959.

     These are some of the Cuban doctors that arrived today -- April 23rd, 2020 -- at Nelson Mandela Airport in Praia, the capital of the African nation of Cape Verde. The Health Minister of Cape Verde, Dr. Serafina Alves, had begged for Cuba's help to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of nations, small and poor countries to rich and large ones -- from Jamaica to Italy -- have done the same thing. Of course, any positive thing regarding Cuba brings out the fierce anti-Cuban propagandists that have abounded in the United States since 1959...defaming innocent Cubans like the doctors shown above and democracy-loving Americans like me...while, of course, always sanitizing and justifying the overthrown Batista-Mafia dictatorship that brutalized Cuba and spawned the Cuban Revolution, which quickly spawned a new capital named Little Havana on nearby U. S. soil.

     Of course, rising to the forefront to take advantage of Cuba's COVID-19 struggles is Andres Oppenheimer, one of the  many anti-Cuban propagandists who have gotten obscenely rich in the United States. Oppenheimer was born 68 years ago in Argentina, so he knows about revolutionaries like Che Guevara and, next to #1-$...#One making money...it seems that Oppenheimer's secondary goal in life is to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. With the Trump administration having elevated the Cuban embargo into a full-scale blockade, and taking advantage of Cuba's tough battle against COVID-19, the heartless Oppenheimer knows this is the time to pounce. As an unchecked Editorialist for the Miami Herald, he has penned a cruel propaganda-spewed article entitled: "ARGENTINA WILLING TO SUPPORT MODERN-DAY SLAVERY BY INVITING 500 CUBAN DOCTORS." A blatant liar, Oppenheimer doesn't discuss that, as usual, Argentina is one of dozens of nations who have successfully BEGGED Cuba for help during this latest medical catastrophe -- from Caribbean neighbors such as Jamaica, Bahamas, St. Lucia, etc., to rich nations such as Italy, Spain, etc., and to small Latin American nations like Honduras that the U. S. has tried to turn anti-Cuban with extra-special aid via stashes of tax dollars. Oppenheimer and the plethora of rich anti-Cuban propagandists in the U. S. have gotten wealthy implying that the Batista-Mafia dictatorship was a world-class government while Revolutionary Cuba has exceeded Nazi Germany as history's all-time worst government.

      In the pages of the Miami Herald and other anti-Cuban propaganda outlets, Andres Oppenheimer has gained most of his wealth and fame. But he also has authored seven highly-financed/highly publicized books that have built his bank accounts on the backs of the masses of innocent Cubans on the island that are surely his prime victims, but the U. S. democracy, of course, also is a victim.

     Of course, the likes of Andres Oppenheimer have had the glorious help from right-wing media outlets, universities, and the ever-burgeoning Think Tanks to spew their anti-Cuban propaganda into a vast collage of Cottage Industries and bulging bank accounts. Once they landed on U. S. soil, anti-Cuban propagandists such as Andres Oppenheimer quickly amassed huge financial and political support from Batistiano exiles, the Catholic Church, the Bush dynasty and other self-serving politicians, etc., etc. With such money and political backing, Andres Oppenheimer and his ilk easily overwhelmed ordinary exiles and everyday Americans. Among their perks, of course, were their choices of America's most expensive Universities -- Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. Andres Oppenheimer has taken advantage of all of his perks -- Miami,  Little Havana, Colombia University, Miami Herald, moneyed-spewed right-wing outlets, powerful political sycophants, etc., etc.

Along the way, Andres Oppenheimer and his kind have made the U. S. democracy more resemble Batista's and Luciano's Cuba than the America that emerged out of World War II in 1945 as the strongest and most admired nation in the Whole Wide World.

     Extreme anti-Cuban propagandists such as Andres Oppenheimer...or such as Humberto Fontana...have free and unchecked media and political wherewithal to spew anti-Cuban propaganda at will across the length and breadth of America.

     What does it say about America and Democracy when it's neither healthy nor unwise to challenge Counter Revolutionary anti-Cuban propagandists???

      In 1962 a wave of thousands of Cuban children...14,000 at one time...were flown off the island to Miami. Fine!! But after being coddled far more with opportunities than everyday American children had, they were programmed to be extremely educated Counter Revolutionaries. Take for example...Carlos Eire, a 1962 alumni and benefactor. He got, among other Cuban amenities, a truly wonderful education at Yale University. For decades now he has been unchallenged as a History Professor at Yale University and as an unchallenged Counter Revolutionary author and lecturer.

      No matter what he says in his highly financed and highly publicized books about Cuba, Carlos Eire is absolutely unchallenged. And that is so regardless of how much of what he says hurts totally innocent Cubans on the island who, for over six decades, have been severely punished by Miami...and have not been afforded the lush amenities Cubans get in Miami.

      In the United States of America since 1959 Americans have been saturated with and spoon-fed propaganda about CONFESSIONS of a REFUGEE BOY LEARNING to DIE in MIAMI. But what about less-privileged and less-coddled Cuban boys {and girls} on the island since 1959? When privileged and coddled Boys & Girls grow up rich in Miami and then promote genocide against poor Boys & Girls on the island, then I think that is wrong. I am sorry for America and DEMOCRACY that Yale University's most celebrated Havana-born Cuban, Carlos Eire, so profoundly disagrees with me on that score.

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cubaninsider: The Morally Bankrupt Marco Rubio

cubaninsider: The Morally Bankrupt Marco Rubio: BANKRUPTING  US Morals Too !!      For over three decades  John McAuliff  has been one of the USA's greatest and most decent exper...

cubaninsider: The Morally Bankrupt Marco Rubio

cubaninsider: The Morally Bankrupt Marco Rubio: BANKRUPTING  US Morals Too !!      For over three decades  John McAuliff  has been one of the USA's greatest and most decent exper...

The Morally Bankrupt Marco Rubio

BANKRUPTING US Morals Too!!

     For over three decades John McAuliff has been one of the USA's greatest and most decent experts regarding US-Cuban relations. Mr. McAuliff's new article laments that the Trump-Rubio regime in Washington is getting away with taking advantage of the Coronavirus pandemic to further impose genocide on masses of innocent people in Cuba to appease Rubio's rich and powerful mentors in Little Havana, the Batistiano capital in Miami that evolved after the Cuban Revolution in 1959 overthrew the brutal U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba. Mr. McAuliff's new article is aptly entitled: "U.S. ATTACKS ON CUBA DURING COVID-19 IS MORALLY BANKRUPT." Almost every decent and knowledgeable person in the whole world totally agrees with John McAuliff. AND YET, 330 million citizens in Democratic America are finding that the U. S. democracy is simply not strong enough to stem what appears to be an encroaching takeover of Washington by Little Havana, a process that has been ongoing since 1959. HERE'S WHY:

    In 1952 a few right-wing thugs in the Eisenhower administration aligned the U. S. democracy with the Mafia to support the brutal and thieving Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba. And not just low-level Mafia thugs but the VERY HIGHEST ECHELON OF THE MAFIA such as all-time kingpins like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, as shown above. At the time in 1952 the U. S. had been the imperialist force in Cuba since 1898's Spanish-American War, fought solely in Cuba, had easily fulfilled an American dream -- control OF CUBA!! Thus anytime beginning in 1898 the U. S. had the power to install a world-class Democracy in Cuba. So why did the U. S. in the 1950s prefer a brutal, thieving Mafia-fueled dictatorship such as depicted above???? Well, the answer is this: The criminals within the bowels of the U. S. government believed that in a Democracy the resources of Cuba would likely be largely used to benefit the majority of Cubans while in a powerful Dictatorship, via kickbacks, rich U. S. businessmen could partake in the wholesale rape and robbery of the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island nation!!! In fact, that same philosophy was also in effect and perfected by the U. S. government in many other nations where the U.S. also preferred and supported many brutal dictatorships -- Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Somoza in Nicaragua, Videla in Argentina, the Shaw in Iran, etc., etc., and deep into the 1970s the U. S. {Nixon-Kissinger, etc.} overturned popular Democratic governments to install U.S.-friendly dictators -- the most flagrant regime-change coup coming in 1973 in Chile, killing the great duly-elected President Allende so he could be replaced, for 17 extremely bloody and murderous years, by the Nixon/Kissinger-beloved murderous Dictator Pinochet. But when powerful U. S. politicians responsible for supporting and sometimes installing murderous dictators in smaller nations were never HELD RESPONSIBLE for such insults to Democracy, the United States of America starting in 1952 drifted from decency into ALIGNING its internationally respected Democracy with the disgraceful Mafia in Cuba. Of course, to this day in 2020 Americans are saturated with potent lies about the image above depicting the U.S.-backed Mafia mayhem inflicted on Cuba in the 1950s so rich U. S. businessmen could partake in the spoils.

    The U. S. support of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba in the 1950s was an anti-democracy departure that was also beginning to be a foreign policy that was spreading elsewhere, especially in the Caribbean and Latin America -- such as the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Iran, etc., etc. U. S. thugs who successfully embedded this imperialist theory into the U. S. democracy also led the U. S. into bloody wars in Korea and Vietnam that the Superpower U. S. lost because sending hundreds of thousands of U. S. soldiers, supported by the world's strongest Air Force, still couldn't defeat people fighting on their own soil against an invader from thousands of miles away. But it was the Cuban Revolution, when it overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia regime in January of 1959, that engraved itself deeply and uniquely into the fabric of American politics, culture, and all other facets of the United States existence. That's because, after a revolution in little Cuba defeated U.S.'s imperial expansion, even more astounding and everlasting was THE FACT that the U. S. democracy instantly permitted the overthrown Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba to re-establish itself on U. S. soil, still with the support of the Superpower's treasury and military. Thus, from 1959 till this today, as reflected by the video above, the new Batistiano capital in the heart of nearby Miami known at Little Havana has increasingly tightened its grip on the Republican Party, and with it America. The USA's political apparatus is based on a TWO-PARTY SYSTEM, Republicans and Democrats, and so with its grip on the Republican Party, what essentially is the BATISTIANO PARTY has evolved into a THIRD PARTY that has evolved from within the Republican Party. Of course, Americans are supposed to deny that cancerous blight on their Democracy but the same Americans are also the most culpable ones because they...we...have allowed it to happen. Thus, Americans are obliged to meekly accept propaganda that denies that the Mob...the Mafia...ruled Cuba "pre-Castro"...meaning before the Revolution. You see, since 1959 the Batistiano control of the Cuban narrative in the U. S. always starts with santilizing the brutal Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba BEFORE a long-shot revolution chased it to Miami, now the home of Little Havana...a Little Havana that has used the power and treasure of the U. S. to TRY to recapture Cuba!!!!! In that process, the likes of Marco Rubio, into a second rich generation of Little Havana Batistianos, have changed the U. S. democracy much more than they have changed Revolutionary Cuba.

      With strong-arm control of the U. S. Cuban narrative since 1959, two generations of Little Havana Counter Revolutionary zealots have-also strong-armed a dangerous control of the Republican Party, which is truly a danger whenever Republicans are in the White House or are forces in the U. S. Congress. The graphic above illustrates Little Havana's grip on America's basic Cuban political structure, which now transcends into the basic fabric of America. In the heart of Little Havana, that's Senator Marco Rubio above shown speaking at the Manuel Artime Theater in Miami. It represents the transition -- Manuel Artime to Rubio -- that has enabled Little Havana to be indelibly embedded into the heart of the U. S. democracy. Manuel Artime was one of the leaders of the Bay of Pigs U.S.-Cuban exile military attack that in April of 1961 was designed to re-capture Cuba for the Batistianos. Although the Bay of Pigs turned out to be a historic humiliation for the United States and the Cuban exiles, people like Manuel Artime are to this day considered Superheroes not only in Miami but nationwide. And as a carefully groomed and hyper-financed force in the second generation of Counter Revolutionaries from Little Havana, Rubio is NOT to be challenged regardless of what he says about Batista's Cuba or Revolutionary Cuba whether he is speaking at the Manuel Artime theater in Miami or on any of the U. S. television programs that he wants to appear on.

     In America's two-party political system, the Democratic U. S. President Barack Obama did his best to normalize relations with Cuba. Obama went to Cuba and told the Cuban people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." The words were both brave and sincere. But the Democratic President Obama was replaced by another Republican President.

       After the Republican Donald Trump succeeded Obama as the U. S. President in 2017, as shown above, one of Trump's first presidential decisions was to totally turn the USA's Cuban policies back over to self-serving Little Havana Counter Revolutionary zealots such as Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart. Rubio's entire financial and political careers have been based on helping a few rich and powerful Little Havana Cubans to re-capture Cuba and, in doing so, to pulverize the masses of Cubans in Cuba. Mario Diaz-Balart, of course, is a part of the ultra-rich and omnipotent Diaz-Balart family and Mario's father Rafael Diaz-Balart was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship before, starting in January-1959, becoming the rich and powerful creator of the first anti-Castro paramilitary unit on U. S. soil. When extremely biased Little Havana extremists like Marco & Mario are allowed to make the economic, military, and genocidal decisions related to Cuba, the U. S. democracy is as much a victim as the Cuban people on the island, I think.

      Indeed, "Rubio applauds Trump's move to roll back Cuba Policy." The truth is, Rubio and his ilk orchestrated that "roll back" to benefit the MONEY-obsessed and POLITICALLY-obsessed Cubans in Little Havana USA. When a Little Havana lightweight like Marco Rubio can make genocidal and {as John McAuliff said} "morally bankrupt" decisions to harm masses of Cubans, the United States is diminished more than Cuba. {I am a passionate and self-avowed Democracy-loving American who believes that anyone who "morally bankrupts America" should be held responsible and accountable, and not benefit economically and politically from committing cowardice genocide against masses of totally innocent people in a much weaker nation!!}.

          And in April of 2020, that is where we are in the United States..."MORALLY BANKRUPT"...as another Republican president, Trump, anoints another Little Havana lightweight, Rubio, as the USA's new U. S. Cuban dictator in Little Havana USA, but not in...Havana.

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cubaninsider: COVID-19 Weekend In Cuba

cubaninsider: COVID-19 Weekend In Cuba: Romance  Is Not Forgotten !!      While Americans are supposed to get all of their Cuban narratives and Cuban policies dictated to the...

COVID-19 Weekend In Cuba

Romance Is Not Forgotten!!

     While Americans are supposed to get all of their Cuban narratives and Cuban policies dictated to them by Batistano-zealots in the Little Havana section of Miami, a superb journalist named Ruaridh Nicoll this weekend filed an interesting, and honest article, about Cubans on the island coping with things like the Coronavirus and the genocide being supposedly imposed on them by President Trump on behalf of the rich and powerful Little Havana leaders. Mr. Nicoll can report honestly about Cuba because he works for two great London-based print-and-digital giants -- The Observer/The Guardian. So, this weekend in Havana Mr. Nicoll observed and wrote about how Cubans on the island TO THIS DAY still are uniquely passionate about...romance!!

  The John Moore/AP photo above was used by Ruaridh Nicoll to illustrate his article entitled: "TAKE ME TO YOUR LADA: Cuba's Passion!" The little Lada cars from Russia are usually ubiquitous on the streets of Havana. It seems...Mr. Nicoll observed that the girl driving the red Lada rendezvoused with the boy who was driving the black Lada. The girl and boy, being hot Cubans, then frantically initiated their union with a passionate kiss. It didn't seem to Ruaridh Nicoll that they were obsessed with either COVID-19 or TRUMP at the moment. 

      So, thanks to the London-based The Observer for giving the world this honest glimpse of real life in Cuba even during the Coronavirus and amidst the genocide aimed at the island by the Trump administration in Washington.

    The article this weekend by Ruaridh Nicoll in the London-based The Observer/The Guardian resonated with me because, as a Democracy-loving American, I am supposed to accept and not complain that in the USA CUBA POLICY is only made by self-serving Little Havana zealots like Sen. Marco Rubio. In other words, Rubio explains to Trump, and to Americans via the media, that Title 3/Helms Burton GENOCIDE against Cubans on the island is necessary to save America...and Rubio claims that all Cubans on the island yearn to get rich in Miami...like him. Of course, IF ANY OF THAT WAS OR IS TRUE, the Batistianos in Little Havana would have recaptured Cuba LONG BEFORE RUBIO WAS BORN IN MIAMI and even before Rubio was so self-servingly mentored by the first generation of Batistianos who fled to Miami.

        Uh...IT BEGS THIS QUESTON: If Rubio and his ilk can get away with imposing genocide against innocent Cubans on the island, and controlling America's narratives and policies regarding Cuba, how long will it be before Little Havana USA replaces Washington as America's capital?? {UH...JUST ASKING!!}

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